atomization

Example Sentences

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Perhaps that atomization is why large communal events are still so popular.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

“Part of the atomization of society is we’re not coordinated in our response to crime,” Mr. Kilpatrick said.

From Washington Times • Jul. 25, 2023

This quality of drift has less to do with Hollywood than it does with Didion’s inner climate, the centrality in her work of atomization and narrative breakdown.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2023

The American people – especially men – are experiencing very high levels of loneliness, disconnectedness and social atomization.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 2023

Knowing that the appearance of electricity depends on a process of atomization of some sort, we shall expect that where electricity becomes freely observable, it will yield phenomena of an atomistic kind.

From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst